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dodge
verb dodged, dodging
- 1. To avoid (a blow, a person, etc) by moving quickly away, especially sideways.
2. To escape or avoid by cleverness or deceit.
- Thesaurus: avoid, parry, hedge, shirk, evade, duck, elude, shuffle, sidestep, equivocate, fudge.
- 1. A sudden movement aside.
2. A trick to escape or avoid something.
- Thesaurus: manoeuvre, ruse, subterfuge, feint, wile, stratagem, ploy, machination, contrivance, trick, scheme, device.
